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| . | Overcoming
Nervousness and Anxiety
Nervous problems can overwhelm us and leave us feeling out of control. They feel as though we are driven to act like this, strengthen with every 'attack' and lead to constant searching for reasons and answers. Involving self-doubt, insecurity and fear, these problems can appear too powerful to deal with. However, there is a way to understand these problems that takes away much of this power - to know what these problems really are, how they work and why we get them. With this insight it is possible to overcome nervousness and anxiety naturally ourselves, without deep therapy or medication; to stop them completely and permanently using the same way they develop and grow. A new understanding ... Current explanations of the cause and cure of problems involving such things as: extreme nervouseness, high anxiety and panic; obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviour; phobias and depression have failed millions of people looking to understand and overcome these problems. Beliefs about illness / medical / genetic causes, and treatments based upon these beliefs have helped very few people to really cure them. Yet when we look closely at these problems, we can see that they are not:- • Diseases • Mental illness • Due to chemical imbalance • Caused by our genes Indeed, these problems are not even 'disorders' (our mind and body are totally ordered in what they are trying to do) and they most certainly aren't irrational - they exist for the most rational reason there will ever be. We can spend a lifetime looking for the right cure for our 'illness' - if only we can find the right pill or method. Unfortunately, in doing this, we are looking at these problems in totally the wrong way. The real cause... When we look at the backgrounds of large numbers of people with nervous problems, they are often strikingly similar in many ways. Negative life experiences and subsequent feelings involving self worth and insecurity occur across the board with such regularity and are so similar that it is hard to see how they cannot possibly play a major role in these problems. Far from being an illness, something strange that has happened to us, or something that is wrong with us, we can see exactly how we become so nervous. It follows a logical psychological progression based on our life experiences and learning, and we can map out exactly what happens to cause it. The events in our lives and the effect they had on us; how they conspire to bring us these problems. How experiences, thoughts and feelings interplay with deep-seated survival instincts to form anxiety-related problems. The potential to develop anxiety problems lies within us all, it is a part of human nature, and it only takes the right (or 'wrong') set of experiences to bring them out. ***** Let's look more closely at nervous problems. Nervousness: Being nervous includes: feeling on edge, jumpy and jittery, feeling apprehensive - that something may happen, and being scared and afraid to some degree. The symtoms of nervousness are the same as those of anxiety: faster heartbeat and breathing, difficulty swallowing, 'butterflies' in the tummy, shaking and trembling, blushing, stuttering, feeling fearful and uneasy etc. The signs of nervousness indicate anxiety; we are anxious and afraid. |
 Evolving Self-Confidence  Curing nervousness _______________ |
| . | Anxiety: Anxiety is a protection mechanism that has evolved over millions of years; it serves to warn us that we are about to be hurt and to prepare us for action. And it does this in 2 main ways:- 1. Our thoughts: We think about potential situations before we get to them - the greatest form of protection is not to get into the situation in the first place. This is something seen in many anxiety-related problems, where we will often avoid situations that make us feel afraid. 2. Our Body: Prepares us for action: the fight-or-flight response. We are charged with energy ready to fight or flee. This response is responsible for all the physical symptoms of anxiety that we experience. . . |
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Extreme nervousness (nervous problems / problems with our nerves) does involve an element of anxious thinking (number 1, above) but by far, the main part of these problems involves that second role of anxiety - our body being prepared for action. This preparation gives us an alertness and energy boost to deal with any danger. The fight-or-flight response - a preparedness that builds up slowly as we think about future situations (anxiety / nervouness building up - often leads to avoidance, seen in many problems) or comes to us in an instant if the threat is imminent - as in panic. Nervous symptoms result from this fight-or-flight response, our body preparing for action, for example:- * Our heart beat speeds up - this is to pump more blood quickly to the main muscle groups (arms and legs) to give them energy (oxygen and sugar) to enable us to stand and fight or run away. * Jitteriness / trembling / shaking - the result of this energy being given to the muscles quickly, priming them for action. * Sweating excessively - we sweat more to cool ourselves down from all this internal energy production. In reality, nervousness and anxiety problems are not illness or genetically programmed, they are not due to an imbalance of certain chemicals in our brain - they develop as we grow. And they do so for one reason ... to protect us. It is the reason our inner-self feels we need this protection; the reason anxiety comes to us so quickly and so strongly we need to understand to truly overcome nervous problems. When we understand this reason, we can cure these problems at their very core and become truly free. |
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